Key job responsibilities
Software Development Engineer - S3 Object API
Join the S3 Object API team and build services at massive scale, supporting billions of requests per minute across a globally distributed fleet serving millions of customers.
What You'll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain highly available services powering Amazon S3
- Build tools and automation to streamline operations, improve CI/CD pipelines, and reduce operational load
- Drive best practices for code quality, fleet health, security, and reliability
- Mentor junior engineers, helping them grow their skills and effectiveness
- Participate in design reviews, operations meetings, and leadership discussions
- Write clear documentation to help teams get the most from our services and tools
What to Expect:
- Ship code frequently and see its real-world impact on a vast customer base
- Work alongside engineers who obsess over performance, availability, scalability, and durability
- Participate in an on-call rotation-we invest heavily in automation and testing to minimize disruptions
- Enjoy a team culture that values work/life balance while maintaining high standards
Our Philosophy:
At AWS, if you build it, you own it. We hold a high bar for test automation, design reviews, and operational excellence-because our customers demand nothing less.
A day in the life
Upon joining S3, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we're building, the tools we use and the business problems we're trying to solve. We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, and job level. On our internal "Broadcast" video streaming website, you'll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we're solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually